{"id":8492,"date":"2021-03-23T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=8492"},"modified":"2020-04-13T20:21:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T00:21:30","slug":"asm-268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/03\/23\/asm-268\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 268"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So you see, John Byrne\u2019s covers for this issue and the previous one are one big image, which sort of makes it look like Spider-Man is teaming up with himself if you put them together. An interesting choice. The regular ASM creative team is back for more fun with gold and government conspiracies. It\u2019s the next day now. The site has been blocked off by big tarps hiding the building. Spider-Man is swinging by while recapping the previous installment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What, exactly, is he supposed to be eating? I haven\u2019t even a guess. There\u2019s no explanation for what\u2019s going on available to the news yet. Peter wonders if he has a responsibility to tell the truth, how that would mess up the world economy, and just how much of the US government is ok working with Kingpin, then goes to sleep. The comic then spends a pretty surprising 4 pages showing some of the process of chopping up the gold, shipping it to the docks, loading it on a ship, sailing it out into the ocean and dumping it in a trench, but that\u2019s only part of the building. As the process continues, a congressman quite illegally sends satellite footage of the dump site to The Arranger, who brings it to Kingpin, thinking he\u2019ll want to know where the gold is going. But he already knows from last night. I would assume Arranger would\u2019ve been privy to all that. Weird. But that burns 2 more pages. I wonder if DeFalco didn\u2019t have much to say on this topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While Spidey wrestles with his conscience some more (Twice in one issue on the same topic, this is seriously padded), Kingpin reveals his plan to the reader: He\u2019s sent a crew of his dudes to take over one of the drop ships and use it to steal what he considers his fair share of the gold. This is finally gonna go somewhere. He got his plan rolling just in time, because the final pieces of the building are being sent to the docks, and Anderson, the fed from last issue, is riding along, so Spider-Man follows. At the docks, one of the army guys notices the crew on the ship suddenly seems unfamiliar, and spots one of them wearing dress shoes and argyle socks, but for now, no one\u2019s interested in his concerns. Anderson boards the ship, so Spider-Man sneaks on, too, neither of them yet knowing it\u2019s crewed by goons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Isn\u2019t the government in bed with Kingpin, tho? Reagan himself was in the briefing that let Kingpin take control of the site last issue. Ah, well, Spidey doesn\u2019t know that. He just knows he\u2019s picked a fight with a whole boatload of goons. He takes out 6 dudes just in that hallway, then pursues the fleeing Arranger up onto the deck, where more goons are waiting. Unfortunately for Spidey, his fight is seen by one of the fighter jets guarding the ship, and now the Coast Guard has been called to deal with him. Whoops!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man smashes in through the window before they can drop it. We skip ahead in time to the Coast Guard boarding the ship, which has stopped moving. They instantly realize the men they find webbed up aren\u2019t their own dudes (Not sure how).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you wanna see maybe the most infamously bad Spider-Man story of its time, you do not want to miss next issue! And this is only the beginning of Secret Wars II tie-ins, there\u2019s at least 3 more that I know of after this. 9 months is a long time, and Spidey\u2019s got 3 monthly comics at this time, he could have had even more. This issue\u2019s letters are about ASM 264. Strangely, they print multiple people asking who \u201cPaty\u201d is without telling them it\u2019s Paty Cockrum. So was her name redacted? How strange. One letter is from Beau Smith, future writer of comics and columns about comics. Been awhile since I saw a future pro in a letter column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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